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Alan Loomis, AICP is an urban designer, planner and educator practicing in the Los Angeles area.

Presently Alan is the City Urban Designer for Santa Monica, California, where he works with City divisions and departments, outside agencies, the general public, and local interest and community groups to provide a cohesive and comprehensive approach to urban design.

For eleven years, Alan led the urban design program for the City of Glendale, starting in 2005 as the City’s first on-staff urban designer. Holding the title Principal Urban Designer, Alan was responsible for bringing the Downtown Specific Plan (DSP) and Mobility Study to adoption, and personally managing the design review for over 20 new downtown projects, representing over 3000 new residences, as well as additional projects at the Disney/Dreamworks creative campus and in the Tropico District surrounding Glendale’s Metrolink/Amtrak station, working with some of the most prolific and prominent architects and developers in the region during regular, often weekly, design sessions. Following the DSP, Alan directed a wide range of award-winning urban design based policy projects, such as the Maryland Off Broadway Art & Entertainment District, the Community Plan program and the Space 134 Freeway Cap Park, leading multi-disciplinary teams through an equally wide range of public outreach programs.

In 2015, Alan was promoted to Deputy Director of the Glendale Community Development Department to lead the newly formed Urban Design & Mobility Division. The Division brought transportation planning and operations under the umbrella of urban design to pursue complete streets policies through integrated land use and transit planning, pedestrian plans and related education initiatives, setting the stage for Glendale's approach towards Measure M projects.

Prior to Glendale, Alan was an urban designer for the Pasadena firm Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, where he directed planning projects for Pomona College, the University of California Santa Barbara, City of Montclair, City of Azusa, and various other locations in California, New Mexico and New Jersey.

He teaches urban design at Woodbury University in Burbank; co-edited the book “Los Angeles: Building the Polycentric Region” a survey of regional smart growth architecture and urbanism published for CNU13; and created the DeliriousLA listing of Los Angeles area architecture and urban design events, now hosted and curated by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

Since Fall 2014, he also serves as one of the Mayor's appointees on the City of Pasadena Design Commission.